"oh but judge, he'll find out they we filter all our competitors, silence dissenting views, and promulgate CERTAIN porn operators who pay us off. We'll lose our customers!!!"
Judge: "Well, stop being a shady fucking company, and have this big hot <BITCHSLAP>".
Excuse me? Now copyright is being used to protect a company's image? Please.
And there's an answer to employee pressure, it's called PROFIT SHARING, something very few companies do these days.
Instead of paying dividends to public shareholders, you pay them to your private employees. The problem with most small companies though, is that employees cannot be shareholders. Most state laws have strict restrictions on who can be a private stockholder in a "C" corporation.
Either way, the company would be better served doing profit sharing, than going public if it wants to retain employees.
Going public is good only for raising capital from the public. It's actually a pretty sad way to make shit-loads of money (in a normal non-hyperinflated trading world).
Are you crazy? Have you not been seeing the world evolve around you? Linux went from NOTHING, NOTHING, in 1993 to being a multi-BILLION dollar industry today. I'd be careful about making statements like "Linux won't stand the test of time", for fear of eating crow.
Yes, it's still quite a bit fly by night in many places, desktops, groupware, manufacturing, accounting. However there are a LOT of people working very hard to fill these holes.
Anyone still using NT4 isn't going to upgrade. I don't know if you noticed, but the economy (U.S.A.) is still in the toilet, and no one has money for upgrades. These are the same people still using Windows95 or OSR2.
They're not going to upgrade until they start rolling out new computers. And event then, they'll likely be keeping their domain controllers around as the last machines to get upgraded.
I've worked for and seen a lot of these companies. 2000 just isn't an option, and neither is 2k3.
I have no issues with snipers. What I have issues with are wallhackers, who think their "virtual selves" have X-Ray vision. ANd I promptly frag them. Over and over and over again, until they give up and run home crying to mommy.
I'm not going to rehash the "entitled to your opinion" argument... Christ, in this country (U.S.A.) it's a given argument anyway.:-)
But IMHO: Vampire Hunter D sucked. It was a really bad anime. I don't get why my friends liked it.
Record of Lodoss War, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell, the original US release of Akira (not the dvd remake (god that sucked)), Princess Mononoke.
I grew up loving the Robotech saga, but now that I'm older and a bit more refined (yeah right), I realize how cheesy it really is... Kind of like Space: 1999.
Princess Mononoke. Ensemble cast, excellent story, great animation, and yet the only place to see it in New England that I know of was the Dedham theatre, a really nice, but small 4 cinema theatre that will likely end up being a Starbucks in a few years. Oh to have seen Sin or Ghost in the Shell on the big screen...
Right, like Elijah wood has ANYTHING on Leonardo DiCaprio to the 10-19 yo female market who saw Titanic 21 times and then bought the VHS, DVD, and Extended DVD Special Gold boxed Directors Cut with signed Leonardo jockstrap.
Sorry. LOTR:TT would have gotten CRUSHED up against Titanic.
Now strap 2 millions pounds of rocket fuel, and unstoppable solid rocket motors to your car, and see how long you live.
You're comparing cars to rocketships. No car ever invented on this planet goes through the hell that a rocketship does.
And to answer your question, to some people the thrill of floating weightless in space is worth the ultimate price. Same as skydiving, hang gliding, scuba diving, deep sea exploration, bungee jumping, and good old fashioned sex-on-a-10-year-old-pacemaker. I'd trade the last 50 years of my life for 14 days in space on 1/50 odds that I might not come back.:-)
If the review board finds out that temperature was the ultimate cause of this accident, I'm going to scream so loud the earmuffs of NASA's contractors in Florida, 1200 miles away will pop off...
So how does the arm, with cargo loaded onto it, traverse the entire length of the station? A legitimate question, I think... It can't let go of the station; does it have tracks all over it, or are there areas which it cannot reach?
because they are the National Aeronautics and *SPACE* Administration. Their job involves Space. What NASA was doing with the SLI was getting private industry to do this job. The problems though are multifold (launch facilities, fuel (Talk with John Carmack for more info about getting rocket fuel), recovery assists). You can make all the parallels you want about Space being like the aeroplane, but what most people forget is that 100 years ago, California basically didn't exist as a population center, and the sky wasn't filled with 5-7000 airplanes every day. Nor were insurance companies anxious to keep airplanes from falling out of the skies.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for a company to start up now, without massive amounts of government assistance, and/or philanthropy from the likes of Bill Gates to enter the space launcher business.
So you have two choices: 1. Give 10billion a year to the private sector, and companies who have zero proven space launch track record. 2. Give your money to NASA, and let them FINISH a project, even if it's 200% overbudget, and let the experts who've been doing this difficult task for nigh on 50 years keep doing what they're good at (Boeing, Lockheed, Rocketdyne, Pratt & Whitney).
I don't know if you've ever worked in the private sector, but about the only place I've ever seen efficiency is in WalMart's procurement and distribution system.:-) I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm just trying to convey that my observation is that the private sector is NOT any more efficient than government. You been to a DMV in Massachusetts lately? 5 years ago I'd spend 2-3 hours just trying to get a registration renewed. Now I walk in and get it done in 10-15 minutes.
Let NASA continue with the 2 great efforts it had in the works, the X38 crew return vehicle concept demonstrator, and the X33 launch vehicle concept demonstrator. Stop foisting conflicting and useless requirements on a launch vehicle, and stop killing NASA when they run overbudget. You think creating Composite fuel tanks is easy? Go ahead, file a proposal, and do it; I'm sure the best and brightest of Boeing will be happy to hear your solution...
Sorry to make it seem as if this as an attack on you. I used "you" a lot in this reply as a metaphor for anyone who thinks that the private sector can do better than NASA right now. I just don't agree. There's no private industry demand for rocket engines with thrust ratings of 500,000 pounds and thrust to weight ratios of 100 to 1.
I'm surprised that guy didn't find the cure for cancer in his work. Man... emotional problems are causing EVERYTHING... from gastrointestinal disorders to asthma and whiplash. Wow. I don't think I've EVER gotten whiplash because I cried too hard.
As a sufferer of carpal tunnel, I call foul. I can easily see the difference between working at a computer properly, and not.
But Zen-monks and other belief systems have long held the belief that since pain is just mental signals, we can train the mind to avoid them and ignore them. Yet guess what? Pain is a highly developed system to tell us that "some shit is broken or breaking".
Snippet from.DOC linked above: The incidence of back and joint pain has skyrocketed over the past 50 years, probably because the public has been led to believe that the back and joints are very delicate and easily injured. The legitimization of these pain syndromes as structural - and therefore the very opposite of emotional - has made back pain and RSI into excellent hiding places for emotional distress, perfect distractions from emotional issues.
I contend that the increasing incident of backpain experienced by the majority of America is caused by two correlating factors: 1. Better reporting (we never used to care about this sort of statistic before the Insurance industry started constructing it's actuarial tables) 2. More and more American's are sitting on their asses for more and more of their life-spans. And then those fools go and try and lift a car or some 300# object, and wonder why they get hurt.
I think your Doctor is a quack. But that's just my opinion, and you don't need to agree with me. Have a NICE day! -Chris
Yes, but compared to George "Buffoonery" Clooney and Val "I'm too pretty for this movie" Kilmer, he Michael Keaton made a Damn Fine Batman. And Oh GOD?! Alicia Silverstone? Puh-LEASE!!!!
Granted, I think Jack Nicholson could have done a better job, but he was probably getting a bit too old for the part...
God, I miss my Java days. Sigh... I keep telling myself, "It may be VB, but it pays the bills..."
I keep saying the same thing, but it goes more like this these days... "It may be a 4GL, but it pays the bills.". I'd *KILL* for some VB action right now... Sigh, when oh when will I ever be able to use Java or C++ again....
Why do you think Microsoft is trying so hard to get.Net-ified? They want you to think of them like you think of Staples and OfficeMax, not as a software vendor, but as the underpinning of your corporation.
Oracle has the added deficit of not having an OS-level lock-in in the back office like Microsoft does.
Yup. And how many times do you see crosslinked comments posted to the wrong stories? Arguably this could be a bug in Slashcode, but using Slashdot as the benchmark for anything has it's problems.
Slashdot Mirror
You apparently didn't go to a school where the homework assignments were given just BEFORE class let out.
Some of us had nothing better to do than SLEEP or dream up building robots and spacecraft or blowing ourselves up making fireworks.
Umm.... wasn't the SR-71 J-58 a turbofan?
Right, so an excuse like:
"oh but judge, he'll find out they we filter all our competitors, silence dissenting views, and promulgate CERTAIN porn operators who pay us off. We'll lose our customers!!!"
Judge: "Well, stop being a shady fucking company, and have this big hot <BITCHSLAP>".
Excuse me? Now copyright is being used to protect a company's image? Please.
Yes, but they don't write Ibm, now do they?
What the Hell does God need money for?
And there's an answer to employee pressure, it's called PROFIT SHARING, something very few companies do these days.
Instead of paying dividends to public shareholders, you pay them to your private employees. The problem with most small companies though, is that employees cannot be shareholders. Most state laws have strict restrictions on who can be a private stockholder in a "C" corporation.
Either way, the company would be better served doing profit sharing, than going public if it wants to retain employees.
Going public is good only for raising capital from the public. It's actually a pretty sad way to make shit-loads of money (in a normal non-hyperinflated trading world).
-Chris
I can just see it now...
[Bigwig General]: Where did that nuclear weapons modernization document get to?
[civilian contractor]: Oops, I think it fell into the couch cushions, and got recycled with a bunch of dimes at the bank... [gulp].
I think he means in buildings. GPS doesn't work very well through 1" plaster, 4" of fiberglass batt insulation and another 1" of plastic,
My cellphone however, works from the center of most suburban steel structures.
Are you crazy? Have you not been seeing the world evolve around you? Linux went from NOTHING, NOTHING, in 1993 to being a multi-BILLION dollar industry today. I'd be careful about making statements like "Linux won't stand the test of time", for fear of eating crow.
Yes, it's still quite a bit fly by night in many places, desktops, groupware, manufacturing, accounting. However there are a LOT of people working very hard to fill these holes.
Anyone still using NT4 isn't going to upgrade. I don't know if you noticed, but the economy (U.S.A.) is still in the toilet, and no one has money for upgrades. These are the same people still using Windows95 or OSR2.
They're not going to upgrade until they start rolling out new computers. And event then, they'll likely be keeping their domain controllers around as the last machines to get upgraded.
I've worked for and seen a lot of these companies. 2000 just isn't an option, and neither is 2k3.
Yes, I was having a bout of dyslexia and missed that before going on my rampage. :-)
Because snipers can't see through walls.
I have no issues with snipers. What I have issues with are wallhackers, who think their "virtual selves" have X-Ray vision. ANd I promptly frag them. Over and over and over again, until they give up and run home crying to mommy.
I think the real answer is that slashdot should stop publishing stories that require "free registration"...
I'm not going to rehash the "entitled to your opinion" argument... Christ, in this country (U.S.A.) it's a given argument anyway. :-)
But IMHO: Vampire Hunter D sucked. It was a really bad anime. I don't get why my friends liked it.
Record of Lodoss War, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell, the original US release of Akira (not the dvd remake (god that sucked)), Princess Mononoke.
I grew up loving the Robotech saga, but now that I'm older and a bit more refined (yeah right), I realize how cheesy it really is... Kind of like Space: 1999.
Anywho, caio!
-Chris
Princess Mononoke. Ensemble cast, excellent story, great animation, and yet the only place to see it in New England that I know of was the Dedham theatre, a really nice, but small 4 cinema theatre that will likely end up being a Starbucks in a few years. Oh to have seen Sin or Ghost in the Shell on the big screen...
<sigh>
Right, like Elijah wood has ANYTHING on Leonardo DiCaprio to the 10-19 yo female market who saw Titanic 21 times and then bought the VHS, DVD, and Extended DVD Special Gold boxed Directors Cut with signed Leonardo jockstrap.
Sorry. LOTR:TT would have gotten CRUSHED up against Titanic.
Now strap 2 millions pounds of rocket fuel, and unstoppable solid rocket motors to your car, and see how long you live.
:-)
You're comparing cars to rocketships. No car ever invented on this planet goes through the hell that a rocketship does.
And to answer your question, to some people the thrill of floating weightless in space is worth the ultimate price. Same as skydiving, hang gliding, scuba diving, deep sea exploration, bungee jumping, and good old fashioned sex-on-a-10-year-old-pacemaker. I'd trade the last 50 years of my life for 14 days in space on 1/50 odds that I might not come back.
If the review board finds out that temperature was the ultimate cause of this accident, I'm going to scream so loud the earmuffs of NASA's contractors in Florida, 1200 miles away will pop off...
So how does the arm, with cargo loaded onto it, traverse the entire length of the station? A legitimate question, I think... It can't let go of the station; does it have tracks all over it, or are there areas which it cannot reach?
because they are the National Aeronautics and *SPACE* Administration. Their job involves Space. What NASA was doing with the SLI was getting private industry to do this job. The problems though are multifold (launch facilities, fuel (Talk with John Carmack for more info about getting rocket fuel), recovery assists). You can make all the parallels you want about Space being like the aeroplane, but what most people forget is that 100 years ago, California basically didn't exist as a population center, and the sky wasn't filled with 5-7000 airplanes every day. Nor were insurance companies anxious to keep airplanes from falling out of the skies.
:-) I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm just trying to convey that my observation is that the private sector is NOT any more efficient than government. You been to a DMV in Massachusetts lately? 5 years ago I'd spend 2-3 hours just trying to get a registration renewed. Now I walk in and get it done in 10-15 minutes.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for a company to start up now, without massive amounts of government assistance, and/or philanthropy from the likes of Bill Gates to enter the space launcher business.
So you have two choices:
1. Give 10billion a year to the private sector, and companies who have zero proven space launch track record.
2. Give your money to NASA, and let them FINISH a project, even if it's 200% overbudget, and let the experts who've been doing this difficult task for nigh on 50 years keep doing what they're good at (Boeing, Lockheed, Rocketdyne, Pratt & Whitney).
I don't know if you've ever worked in the private sector, but about the only place I've ever seen efficiency is in WalMart's procurement and distribution system.
Let NASA continue with the 2 great efforts it had in the works, the X38 crew return vehicle concept demonstrator, and the X33 launch vehicle concept demonstrator. Stop foisting conflicting and useless requirements on a launch vehicle, and stop killing NASA when they run overbudget. You think creating Composite fuel tanks is easy? Go ahead, file a proposal, and do it; I'm sure the best and brightest of Boeing will be happy to hear your solution...
Sorry to make it seem as if this as an attack on you. I used "you" a lot in this reply as a metaphor for anyone who thinks that the private sector can do better than NASA right now. I just don't agree. There's no private industry demand for rocket engines with thrust ratings of 500,000 pounds and thrust to weight ratios of 100 to 1.
I'm surprised that guy didn't find the cure for cancer in his work. Man... emotional problems are causing EVERYTHING... from gastrointestinal disorders to asthma and whiplash. Wow. I don't think I've EVER gotten whiplash because I cried too hard.
.DOC linked above:
As a sufferer of carpal tunnel, I call foul. I can easily see the difference between working at a computer properly, and not.
But Zen-monks and other belief systems have long held the belief that since pain is just mental signals, we can train the mind to avoid them and ignore them. Yet guess what? Pain is a highly developed system to tell us that "some shit is broken or breaking".
Snippet from
The incidence of back and joint pain has skyrocketed over the past 50 years, probably because the public has been led to believe that the back and joints are very delicate and easily injured. The legitimization of these pain syndromes as structural - and therefore the very opposite of emotional - has made back pain and RSI into excellent hiding places for emotional distress, perfect distractions from emotional issues.
I contend that the increasing incident of backpain experienced by the majority of America is caused by two correlating factors:
1. Better reporting (we never used to care about this sort of statistic before the Insurance industry started constructing it's actuarial tables)
2. More and more American's are sitting on their asses for more and more of their life-spans. And then those fools go and try and lift a car or some 300# object, and wonder why they get hurt.
I think your Doctor is a quack. But that's just my opinion, and you don't need to agree with me.
Have a NICE day!
-Chris
Yes, but compared to George "Buffoonery" Clooney and Val "I'm too pretty for this movie" Kilmer, he Michael Keaton made a Damn Fine Batman.
And Oh GOD?! Alicia Silverstone? Puh-LEASE!!!!
Granted, I think Jack Nicholson could have done a better job, but he was probably getting a bit too old for the part...
-Chris
I keep saying the same thing, but it goes more like this these days... "It may be a 4GL, but it pays the bills.". I'd *KILL* for some VB action right now... Sigh, when oh when will I ever be able to use Java or C++ again....
-Chris
Why do you think Microsoft is trying so hard to get .Net-ified? They want you to think of them like you think of Staples and OfficeMax, not as a software vendor, but as the underpinning of your corporation.
Oracle has the added deficit of not having an OS-level lock-in in the back office like Microsoft does.
Yup. And how many times do you see crosslinked comments posted to the wrong stories?
Arguably this could be a bug in Slashcode, but using Slashdot as the benchmark for anything has it's problems.